Valle-di-Rostino No. 1 / Valle di Rostino

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view of baptistery - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "U battisteru paleocristianu di l'antica pieve di Santa Maria di Riscamone, nant'à a cumuna di E Valle di Rustinu, Corsica"

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Image Source: digital photograph 26 September 2003 by Cosudibastia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_di_Riscamone,_u_battisteru_paleocristianu.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2022]

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view of baptistery - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "U battisteru rumànicu di Santa Maria Riscamone, Valle di Rustinu, Corsica"

Copyright Statement: image copyright © Cosudibastia, 2003

Image Source: digital photograph 26 September 2003 by Cosudibastia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_di_Riscamone,_u_battisteru_rumanicu_detagliu.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2022]

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view of baptistery - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "U battisteru rumànicu di Santa Maria Riscamone, Valle di Rustinu, Corsica"

Copyright Statement: image copyright © Cosudibastia, 2003

Image Source: digital photograph 26 September 2003 by Cosudibastia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_di_Riscamone,_u_battisteru_rumanicu.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "La cuve cruciforme"

INFORMATION

FontID: 04064ROS
Church/Chapel: Baptistère Saint-Jean
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: 20235 Valle-di-Rostino, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Corse, Corsica / Corse
Directions to Site: The old church and the baptistery are located off (W) the D615, about a 30-minute walk W from the town of Valle-di-Rostino (Dictionnaire des églises..., 1966-), about 25 km WSW of Borgo
Font Location in Church: A few yards SE of the ruined église Sainte-Marie
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 12thC baptistery [cf. FontNotes]
One of three Corsican baptisteries noted in Salet Francis' Trois baptistères des XIe et XIIe siècles en Corse (IIe partie) [compte-rendu], in the Bulletin Monumental (1958, 116-1: pp. 59-60) [https://www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1958_num_116_1_8758_t1_0059_0000_3] [accessed 15 September 2022]. Described in the Dictionnaire des églises..., (1966-) as a baptistery dating from the 12th (?) century built in the Roman-Pisan style: octagonal with a diametre of 11 m. and built of shale; there is nothing left of the actual immersion piscina, but the source [cf. supra] reports a monolithic stone tympanum with the figures of Adam and Eve, believed to have been placed over the western door. The baptistery and the church of Sainte-Marie are listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099268]: "Site archéologique et substructions d'un sanctuaire primitif [...] Vestiges [...] Le site contient les édifices ruinés de la chapelle et du baptistère, ainsi que les substructions d'un sanctuaire primitif. L'église de Sainte-Marie de Riscanone, édifiée au 5e siècle sur le site d'une ville romaine, aurait été reconstruite et agrandie entre le 6e et le 9e siècle. Son aspect définitif doit dater du 12e siècle. A quelques mètres de l'église, fut construit au 12e siècle le baptistère octogonal de Saint-Jean-Baptiste." Noted with some illustrations in Norbert Breton's 2021 Premier millénaire [http://millenaire1.free.fr/408_7_2B_35_valle_di_rostino_baptistere.html#1] [accessed 12 September 2022] [cf. BSI entry for Valle-di-Rostino No. 2 for the church of Sainte-Marie de Riscamone].

COORDINATES

UTM: 32T 522200 4700676

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, shale (schistous rock)
Font Shape: octagonal baptistery
Diameter (includes rim): 11 m (outside wall)
Notes on Measurements: Dictionnaire des églises..., (1966-)

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998